On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole <o...@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> > Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I
> > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the
> > collection?  If so, how would I do this?  Can grep read text from
> > within PDFs?
>
> pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think
>
> Olivier
>
>
A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google
scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for.



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